Artists in Dialogue | Featuring “Multiplicity” Artists Kaima Marie Akarue & Brittney Boyd Bullock
May 9, 2024
This Artists in Dialogue session features artists Kaima Marie Akarue and Brittney Boyd Bullock discussing their work from the exhibition Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage.
Plan Your Visit
- Admission is free. This event takes place in the Lynn Wyatt Theater, located in the Kinder Building. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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About the Speakers
Kaima Marie Akarue is the daughter of a Nigerian immigrant and a white mother, which allowed her to exist simultaneously within two vastly different cultures. Kaima uses collage to discover the social implications of identity, with specific attention to the narratives surrounding urbanism and capitalism as they incubate in individual, familial and social tropes. She has showcased nationally in group exhibitions, including the Glendale Library in California, San Antonio Art League and Museum, the Houston Museum of African American Culture, and the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. She recently received the Carol Crow Fellowship, awarded by the Houston Center for Photography where she debuted a collection of collages for her solo exhibition.
Brittney Boyd Bullock is an artist working in fiber, mixed-media, and abstraction who explores the tension between searching and finding, obsession and order, and lightness and darkness through two- and three-dimensional forms. Contemplative and personal, the process-driven works interrogate anxiety and wonder using materials in a new way, forcing her to make meaning in the arbitrary jumble. Brittney’s work is a sensory dwelling that uses repetition, color, and story in ways that trigger joy and wonder. Making new contexts for old worlds makes them new again; these new versions of what already exists are how she understands the power of play, existence, world-building, and the human experience.
This series is funded by the Frank and Eleanor Freed Lecture Endowment.
All Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from Macey and Harry Reasoner; the Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation; and the Texas Commission on the Arts. Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ballard; Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Tate; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Virginia and Ira Jackson; the Favrot Fund; CFP Foundation; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of John Wynne; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.
On Thursdays, admission to the MFAH Permanent Collections is free, courtesy of Shell USA, Inc.
“Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage” was organized by the Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee.
Support for the national exhibition tour is provided by generous grants from the Henry Luce Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Generous support is provided by:
Bettie Cartwright
Texas Capital
Jereann and Holland Chaney
JBD Foundation
Lisa and Barron Wallace
Michael W. Dale
DIR Inc./Drs. Russell H. and Rosalind C. Jackson
Jay Jones and Terry Wayne Jones
Merinda Watkins-Martin and Reginald Martin
Ann and Alton McDowell